Eksempler på obedience

• The basic political assuption implicit in non-violent action is that governments are ultimately dependent on the fearful obedience and compliance of the people.

• Ministers in conflict with their parishioners were quick to insist on the obligations of unconditional obedience.

• With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.

• It cultivated habits of obedience, and taught detainees to cooperate.

• Judges placed a premium on speed, agility and obedience in getting around the course and in negotiating obstacles.

• Inch by inch the disturbance rises as if the desert were rising in obedience to some upthrusting force beneath.

• The moral duty of assent to the truth is always binding whilst the religious duty of obedience to authoritative correction is not.

• An opposite reduction sets them firmly apart, in obedience to the names given to them by their makers.